Fireworks is an Adobe product similar to Photoshop but tailored more towards web design.  Here are the basics to doing masking.

A recent study reveals what your visitors are really looking at on your web pages...

Many small businesses start off with buying a couple of computers, connecting them to ... 

I installed Microsoft Windows Vista on my Table PC Laptop this week, here are my thoughts thus far...

Ever wish you could just right click on an image file and resize it? Well you can with the Microsoft Image Resizer PowerToy. Download and install this application to get a new feature when you right click on any image with your mouse. I use this a few times a week to resize JPG photos from my digital camera to a more appropriate size for emailing and uploading to friends.

Cropper is a free, easy to use Windows application that allows you to capture specific areas of your computer screen. It is an application that you can drag and resize to put over a section of your screen, then hit enter and it will automatically save a picture of what is under the Cropper application to your computer. It is great for taking screen shots of websites, areas of a PDF document, cropping an area of a photo or sending a picture of your screen in an email to an associate. It is far better than ‘print screen’ and you can download it for free. I used Cropper to make the screenshots in this newsletter.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an extremely complex subject because Internet Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN do not openly publish all the factors involved with calculating how they rank a website for particular keywords. It is up to the SEO specialists of the world to try different techniques, see what works and publish their findings to others. Here are a few simple “on-page” factors we have identified that can help your website tremendously in Yahoo, MSN, and Google. There are also a significant number of “off-page” factors that have an additional impact on your ranking, but we will cover those at a later date.

Here at Web Ascender we made all of our own online videos. We primarily have two types of videos we make:

• Computer screen capture with voice over
• Digital Video of a persor with voice over